[QUOTE who="melech19 in Lebanon, New Hampshire"]Also, I spent as much time as possible for 2.5 months to learn the basics (Alberts) through all the sophisticated techniques (Buckingham, Tsongalis) for the MB exam. You really have to know everything, as some of the questions ask about specific viral strains, for example which of 4 HPV strains leads to ovarian cancer, and which strain of HCV is easiest to treat and which most difficult. Also, the number or triplet repeats that determine Fragile X syndrome and Huntington Disease and which technique you would use to quantify the repeats: Southern, PCR, dideoxy-sequencing, etc. The latest edition of Thompson and Thompson Medical Genetics is helpful in the sense that it has about 43 case studies of various diseases, in addition to other didactic material. Spending too much time with it, however, leads you too far astray.[/QUOTE]
thanks for this great information!!! I would like to take the mb(ascp) but have never worked in it, I am a MT(ASCP) so it will purely be book study- I have all the references you suggest (my employer has them for me to borrow) any other suggestions? Would appreciate any other tips you have/used to help you? It seems so overwhelming to study for this? thanks and congrats on passing your mb(ascp)!!!
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